Lun Yu – The Analects of Confucius

Lunyu XII. 4. (297)

How the Chün-tsze has neither anxiety nor fear, and conscious rectitude frees from these.
1. Sze-mâ Niû asked about the superior man. The Master said, "The superior man has neither anxiety nor fear."
2. "Being without anxiety or fear!" said Niû;– "does this constitute what we call the superior man?"
3. The Master said, "When internal examination discovers nothing wrong, what is there to be anxious about, what is there to fear?"

Legge XII.4.

Ssu-ma Niu asked about the gentleman. The Master said, 'The gentleman is free from worries and fears.' 'In that case, can a man be said to be a gentleman simply because he is free from worries and fears?' The Master said, 'If, on examining himself, a man finds nothing to reproach himself for, what worries and fears can he have?'